1. You were doing all those glamorous scientific research, and we don't always do such exciting things, a lot of times the work can be mundane, can you do mundane work? 2. Tell me about yourself? 3. What is your biggest achievement? 4. What is the practical use of this? (a well-known X-ray spectroscopic technique was shown in a ppt slide) 5. Why don't you become a professor? why do you leave academia? 6.How many first author publications did you have? (asked during lunch time)
I was asked What type of jobs I performed in my previous employment that made me qualified for this job. How I managed stress, conflicting work (when tasked with more than one assignment how did I prioritize or manage to get the work done), manage different personalities, and how I problem solved. I was also asked specific questions as to what programs I was experienced with, to give examples of PII, give examples of different file types used. They also asked general interview questions.
How would yu respong to an escalted customer
Why did you leave the "other" company?
Talk about a situation where a customer was not satisfied, or upset.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Tells us about a time you didn't see eye to eye with someone, how did you work through the issue.
What would make you leave Columbia?
To me there were none.
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